John Jakes

John Jakes was born in Chicago, graduated from De Pauw University, and gained his MA in Literature at Ohio State. He worked for fifteen years at various creative posts in advertising before deciding to write full-time.
John Jakes is the author of short stories, plays and novels, including the ambitious and brilliantly researched international bestseller, the North and South Trilogy - North and South, Love and War and Heaven and Hell. The first two volumes were made into a highly successful television mini-series.
The Kent Family Chronicles, the eight volume, bestselling epic saga, was first published between 1974 and 1980.

The Bold Frontier collects bestselling author John Jakes’s timeless stories about the untamed American West. Jakes thrillingly portrays the harsh realities of life on the frontier with tales of lawmen in the Sierra Nevada, railroad workers in Kansas, and gamblers on the steamboat River Queen. For...

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of undeclared class warfare where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. Where giant marble mansions called "cottages" arose and where--amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and c...

Georgia, 1864: Sherman’s army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies … attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie … struggle to save the family rice plantation. When Sherman offers the con...

JAKES'S ACCLAIMED SAGA OF A SOUTH CAROLINA DYNASTY FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR
With more than 50 million books in print, John Jakes is one of the preeminent novelists of American historical fiction. Now the bestselling author who "makes history come brilliantly alive" (The W...

John Jakes, the acclaimed author of the #1 New York Times bestselling North and South Trilogy, returns to the Civil War with On Secret Service -- the story of two couples, divided by war and allegiance, who discover that love doesn’t take sides. A Rebel sympathizer’s affection for a former Pink...

From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of the Crown family--first introduced in the New York Times bestseller Homeland. As the second generation comes of age, the Crowns strive to find their place in a turbulent America, which stands at the dawn of a...

New, never-before-published stories from members of the Western Writers of America include Elmore Leonard's "Hurrah for Captain Early," John Jakes's "Manitow and Ironhand," and Judy Alter's "Sweet Revenge."...

epic saga of the American immigrant experience in this story of a family dynasty in turmoil at the dawn of a new century. From the uncontrolled chaos of Chicago's infamous Pullman Strike, to the birth of the moving picture, and the bloody carnage of the Spanish-American War, the Crown family raced ...

From the author of such American epics as the Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South trilogy comes this special anthology of frontier fiction--featuring three brand new stories and a special introduction by the author....

"Remember the Alamo " is one of the most familiar battle cries in American history, yet few know about the brave woman who inspired it. Susanna Dickinson's story reveals the crucial role she played during that turbulent period in Texas-American history....

James Macklin Chase was a poor Pennsylvanian who dreamed of making it rich in California. But at the turn of the century, the money to be made was in oil, citrus, water rights, and the railroads. Mack would have it all, if he had his way. And along the way, the men and women he met, the passion he ...

THE MIGHTY CONCLUSION TO AMERICA'S BEST-LOVED SAGA
GEORGE HAZARD -- He will discover that not even the terrors of the Civil War could exact the terrible price he'd pay in a country at peace but still ablaze with hatred.
MADELINE MAIN -- She faces the struggle to rebuild her life and her burne...

A courtesan for hire, a brainless hunk, and alien invaders combine to bring about ancient history’s most momentous catastrophe in John Jakes’s hilarious take on the fall of Atlantis For centuries the mystery of the lost continent of Atlantis has intrigued mortals everywhere. Who lost it? Where ...

The bestselling saga that has sold more than 5 million copies. The books that inspired the smash-hit television miniseries. Beautifully repackaged for the Dutton hardcover release of On Secret Service--John Jakes's long-awaited return to the Civil War years......

THE MAINS-Carolina plantation owners, they proudly defended their leisurely, aristocratic way of life.
THE HAZARDS -- Pennsylvania industrialists descended from an English fugitive, they lived in the thrilling world of invention and commerce.
Their sons met at West Point and formed the friend...

A NATION ADRIFT -- AND THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO GAVE IT HOPE
It was the whip-end of an era -- when innocence died and money lust was enthroned. The new generation of Kents was locked in a feverish race for wealth -- even as Europe's millions poured across the seas, to change the face of our nation an...

BRAK THE BARBARIAN PITS SWORD AND SOUL AGAINST SORCERY IN AN EPIC QUEST THROUGH FABLED LANDS
The mighty yellow-haired Brak stalked from the frozen north on a journey that would take him to Prince Hamur's haunted palace with its demon leopards and living walls. .through the black forest of the dr...

The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great.
Postwar prosperity had transformed the nation. The Kents were thrust into the daring occupations of our country's most reckless and corrupt era...feverish speculation in the east...the cattle boom in the west...rip-roaring Ab...

The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great.
As the Civil War draws to its inevitable climax, THE WARRIORS carries the turbulent chronicle of the divided Kent family to far-reaching new battlefields. A gracious Southern plantation ravaged by Union soldiers as the blacks...

The bold glittering saga of our America--and the people who made her great.
Raging with the heartbreaks and tragedies of our nation's darkest hours, this passionate saga follows a dynamic generation of Kents through the hell of Civil War--from New York, where the Kent empire fears destruction...to...

The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great.
Spanning the young American continent . . . its burgeoning east coast cities . . . its warring frontiers . . . its lawless towns of the West . . . the continuing saga of the Kent family follows the dangerous bloodsoaked years...

The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great.
With the end of the colonies' fight for independence begins a new and even more glorious battle to build a new nation. It is an epoch ripe with the passion that only a country in its springtime can inflame, and two young hei...

The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great.
Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers awaiting the British charge on Breed's Hill, and sweeping across the luminous fabric of our Nation's earliest, war-torn years. THE REBELS continues the passionate chronic...

Set against the rich fabric of our heritage, and the colorful tumult of events that gave rise to a fledgling nation, this vibrant novel of romance and adventure introduces a stunning new historical figure to excite the imaginings of future generations: Phillipe Charboneau -- THE BASTARD.
Illegitim...

13 original horror tales with a Forward by Joe R. Lansdale, Introduction by Brian A. Hopkins, listing of 13 World Horror Convention, Bram Stoker Winners. 2 pages in bound in front signed by all 17 contributors. Limited to 176 copies....

"We go to the dark. We ride to the awful dark. A stranger leads us, a savage man. His presence brings the evil down!"
The soothsayer's grim words chilled the hearts of the travellers. Even the iron nerves of Brak the Barbarian twanged with foreboding. For in the trader's caravan as it crossed th...

"The road is long to Khurdtsan, Barbarian. Beware of Septegundus. I will be there!"
Brak the Barbarian, outcast from the wild northern steppes of his own people, journeyed southward to golden Khurdisan.
He rode alone through a world of savagery and sorcery, relying on his swordsmanship and hi...

In the tenth age of the star kings of II Galaxy... In that far off day of a far off future when mankind had spread beyond the Home Cluster, there was a man called Dragonard. Dragonard the Beast some called this fallen warrior of the immortal Lords of the Exchange who ruled and owned a million world...

THE TIME: 1990
THE PLACE: A gray, tightly computerized city-state, somewhere in North America
THE INHABITANTS: Apes who serve as terrified slaves, Men who function as brutalized masters
Until the Apes revolt... in a battle as savage and monstrous as the bondage they'd been forced to endure...